I just wanted to write a quick post for my co blogger. I wanted to apologized for all my friend over the blogosphere who visited my blogs none stop even though I wasn't able to visit their blog back right away. We ( me ,my husband and the rest of his family were going back in fort at the Swedish Hospital here in Seattle, for my husband dad is in the hospital until now. We nearly lost him the other day.

I have some chances to blog for a little bit everyday since friday , when ever we (husband family) switch shift to be there with my hather-in-law. I am not sure when he will be home. His doctors are still doing some test.

Anyway, I just want to apologize. Bear with me, I will be visiting your blog soon. Hope you all have a great day.

The economy always has and always will have its ups and downs. It's easy to coast through the good times, but how do you come out of the tough times unscathed?
Talk it over. Sit down with every member of your household and go over your finances.
How you resolve and differences in your approach to money will have a profound effect on your relationship's chances of succeeding: Take a Healthy Approach to Finances in Your Relationship
Now is the perfect time to set an example of your children, and show them how a family can pull together during tough times and everyone can chip in: Teach Your Child About Budgeting and Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share
Set financial goals. Focus on paying off debt and saving an emergency fund. If you don't already have you an adequate emergency fund set aside, specify a goal for how much money you want to add to it every month, and put an equal amount towards paying off your highest interest debt. Pay yourself first.

While normally, it's recommended that a two-income couple keep three months' worth of expenses in an emergency fund, during a downturn the recommended time is six months instead, especially if you're in an industry that gets hit hard by a recession (construction, financial services, food) and if you're a one-income family. If you're self-employed, you should set aside up to a year's worth of expenses.
Cut costs. There are a number of ways to reduce expenses.

Cut discretionary spending. Buy nothing. Resist sales pitches. Don't even think about using that new credit card offer in the mail, even if it does have a low APR and no payments for two years--evaluate it carefully. When you do need to buy things, haggle. But this is a good time, overall, to determine the difference between what you want and what you need, and reconsider your values - is your current standard of living really worth hanging onto?
Transportation - Carpool as much as you can. Consider commuting by bicycle or even living without a car. But if that's not practical, look for ways to save money on gas, even if it means hypermiling.
Housing - Get a roommate or consider relocating to an area with a lower cost of living. Maybe you can move in with family members until the economic downturn blows over. Keeping the peace in a multigenerational household isn't always easy, but it has its own rewards.
Food - Stop going out to eat; instead, try to cook at home from scratch more often. Consider the benefits of the slow food movement. If you don't have enough time to cook, try doing it just once a month. Find good deals at a local farmers' market.
Keep the money flowing in.

If you have a job, be an amazing employee. Now is not the time to slack. Show up early, stay late, and volunteer for projects. Pick up the slack for other workers; it's what will happen when people get laid off, anyway, so now is the time to prove yourself. Look for ways to save your employer money, especially if you see your employer doing little things to that effect, like encouraging employees to turn of their computers. Try to quantify your efforts in terms of how you've raised profits and cut costs. Start networking so that in case you still get laid off, you have a safety net of contacts who might be able to help.
If you own a business, develop a risk management plan if you haven't already. Find ways to reduce expenses, e.g. Virtualize Your Workforce. Improve Service Quality at Your Business so that budget-strapped customers will want to use your products or services through tough times.
If you don't have a job, find other ways to make money fast. Focus on cutting your expenses, as described in the previous step, and consider volunteering; if you've got the spare time, there are organizations that will need your help, and you could establish good karma in your community.
Enjoy life. In order to avoid recession depression, don't let fear control you; an intense feeling of paranoia can make you an inflexible employee and also strain your relationships. Be thankful for what you have, and make sure to have fun. Instead of not taking a family vacation, for example, take a Staycation or Exchange Your Home for Free Vacation Accommodation instead; invite your family to think of creative ways to save money without skimping on happiness. Accept difficult times as a challenge for your fortitude and adaptability.

You have a lot of skills (not all that you use on the job, often), and even more knowledge. How can you apply that knowledge to your job/career and increase your value/worth?

Substantiate and list everything you already do at work. Keep a work diary/journal and write down everything you do.
List concrete tasks that you perform, whether on a regular or occasional basis.
List skills that you use in the course of your job. These might be computer skills, skills that you use to accomplish tasks, or general skills, such as the ability to manage money or projects.
List "soft" skills, such as communication skills. Do you deal with difficult people or touchy situations? Do you manage people? Can you help a customer to decide what she really wants and transform that information into a product specification? Write that down, too.
List knowledge that is valuable to the company. Do you remember the history of a product or process or why something is no longer done a certain way? Do you know exactly where to find information in a file or database?
Keep a list/inventory of what you do outside of work, too. Your extracurricular activities can give you ideas about skills and interests you may not yet be using on the job.
Classes, whether in person or online.
Websites and what you do on/for them
Volunteer activities.
Hobbies and pastimes.
Decide which of these skills are relevant to your current job. Look at your job description with a critical eye, both for what it currently says and what you might like it to say. Think ahead to what directions you would like your career to take.
Talk to your work acquaintances and get their professional opinions. Ask your colleagues and, if possible, your supervisor, what strengths and weaknesses they see in you. Be prepared to accept criticism gracefully.
Expand your knowledge, skills and abilities.
Take on newer or more advanced tasks.
Take a class or attend a training.
Read manuals, procedures, instructions, or any other information associated with your career goals.
Get more practice at a partially developed skill.
Learn from others who do similar jobs or tasks that you wish to attempt.
Incorporate skills you have learned outside the workplace or skills from previous jobs into your current job.
Evaluate your salary against others in your field (www.indeed.com/salary).[1]
Take into consideration where you live and work, as opposed to where others might live and work.[2]
'Rewrite' your job description to encompass your extra talents.
Ask for a pay raise. When you can demonstrate growth and, ideally, an increased worth to the company, use your journals to summarize that growth and value. Then, take your case to whoever.
Ask for a promotion. If your job has grown or changed a great deal, or if your responsibilities have increased substantially, ask for a new title as well as a new salary. This could get you the respect of your colleagues as well as put you into a higher salary scale.

Look at your hobbies[3] and interests[4] with an eye towards turning them into an extension of your job, or a new job.
Be honest with yourself. If you're not a 'people person', putting in for a sales position might not be for you.
Don't lose sight of your basic job duties in the process of growing or changing your career. Make sure that your job gets done, even as you branch out and learn new things.
Let people know you're trying to grow and improve. Your initiative will be more visible and you're more likely to get help, whether in the form of opportunities to learn (such as more advanced tasks) or direct training and advice.

Usability testing is nothing but testing done to evaluate the functioning of a product before it is released in the market. Usability testing can go awry if the facilitator is not capable enough to handle it properly. So before executing any kind of usability testing the facilitator (the person who is doing the testing) should bear in mind few points.

Do not deviate from your goal. The facilitator should be well aware of his responsibilities and that is to gather as much information as possible about the product or application. So it is upon his hands as to how he should maneuver the whole course of the testing. He can make it a success or a failure. It all depends upon how well he handles the testing procedure.
Try to know your participants. Before giving suggestions as to how to go about it, try to understand your participants. Some may grasp things very quickly while others take time. So deal with the participants accordingly.
Make them familiar with the environment. The participants may be or may not be familiar with the application, service or the product. It may not be new to some while for others it may be their first time.
Make the participants feel at ease. Provide an atmosphere where they can carry out the tasks in a relaxed mood. Do whatever you can to make them feel at ease. If they are cool and composed then only the testing would become productive.
Do not test the participants. Very often the participants do get a feeling that they are being tested instead of the product or software so they should be given the assurance that the product or service and not they are the purpose of testing.
Be a good listener. If you are a good listener then the participants would automatically feel comfortable. They will come up with suggestions of improvements.
Never intimidate them. Always give scenarios and never instruct them as nobody likes anyone bossing them around.
Do not rub them the wrong way. While carrying out the test if the participants are stuck somewhere or are not able to complete the task do not make faces or noises in a way to provide hints or your displeasure as it may hurt their ego.